There’s a reason that her work continues to resonate hundreds of years after it was written. Here’s the thing-no one, not even Andrew Davies, is going to be able to replicate Austen’s particular blend of clever style and sharp social commentary born from Regency-era experiences. That work is the basis for this new series, although only the first half of the first episode is pulled from Austen’s material. Sanditon was Jane Austen’s last novel, of which she penned only 11 chapters before her death. The eight-part miniseries already aired in the UK in 2019, but to know that we would finally be seeing Andrew Davies’ take on the material in the new year here was thrilling (he of 1995’s Pride and Prejudice, and a host of other major adapted classics). For viewers of a certain kind (read: me), there has been a palpable excitement over the advent of Sanditon to PBS Masterpiece.
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